Table 1.
Topics discussed in Tweets mentioning COVID-19 and mental health.
| Topic | % Token | Keywords | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stay-home and loneliness | 24.70% | covid, get, alone, tired, go, people, worry, mask, know, home | Joe, I am old… been home alone since mid-Feb. I have auto-immune issues. I have been sick 3 times this year after going to the market. I was very careful. I fear Covid and worry how long it will be for someone like me to get a vaccine. There are many like me. |
| Death toll | 16.70% | fear, covid, people, death, die, alone, virus, many, number, live | Yea but fearing it causes more damage than actual virus. Virus deaths is lie created to cause that fear. We cannot live in fear always. I have been around a lot with covid and not once have caught it. Covid is not the big bad killer that dems and media want u to believe. |
| Politics and policy | 13.20% | covid, fear, biden, trump, country, vaccine, great, american, bill | I do not fear Covid specifically at all, though I should since I’m high-risk. But yes, I do have that generalized anxiety. I think it’s a combo of Covid, murder hormets, Trump, Biden, and riots in the streets. |
| Personal symptom | 12.30% | covid, fatigue, test, vaccine, get, depression, patient, hospital, symptom | Lost a job, could not attend my grandfather’s funeral, may never get to see my other grandfather again as he has been given little time to live, have had to cope with severe depression in total isolation, actually had vivid, developed chronic fatigue and urticaria as a result… |
| Covid and vaccine | 11.50% | vaccine, covid, new, worry, alone, case, coronavirus, pandemic, day, worker | Vaccines offer protection against COVID-19, but experts worry side effects may scare people off |
| Help and relief | 10.90% | covid, stress, anxiety, pandemic, help, health, relief, mental, time | THIS VIDEO FROM @PrinceEa is going to help give relief from covid anxiety because you are being proactive and keeping in the best possible immune health! |
| Government responses | 10.70% | failure, covid, trump, american, response, coronavirus, dead, pandemic, lie, death | Literally what rules? This is Failure of Leadership. Slow to close and quick to reopen, like trump wanted. Require Masks. Get Money to Citizens for Rent, Food, Utilities. Close Bars + Restaurants. Ban Large Gatherings. This does not take a rocket scientist. just a leader |